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Read All Over celebrates the bookworm in all of us, showcasing readers in Vancouver and the books they love most.
My name is Garry Thomas Morse. I write books of poetry and fiction, often set in alternative or future versions of Vancouver or on Coast Surreal Territory. Your move, reader. |
How do you like your books served up best – audio books, graphic novels, used paperbacks, library loaner, e-reader…
New and used paperbacks. I am frequently found loitering at Pulp Fiction Books on Main Street.
What book makes you feel like a kid again?
La Chamade, along with other Françoise Sagan novels.
- A lovely shelf where I work at Talonbooks. See if you can spot the recent 2011 GG finalist... Photo courtesy of V. Williams.
What books have changed your life?
Swann’s Way (Proust), Either (Kierkegaard), Murphy (Beckett), Satyricon (Petronius), Illuminations (Rimbaud), Against Nature (Huysmans) and Juliette (de Sade).
The one book you always recommend is…
Liberty or Love! by Robert Desnos.
Your life story is published tomorrow. What’s the title?
Why Good Things Happen to Difficult People.
Where is your favorite place to crack open a good book in Vancouver?
On a fragrant Skytrain car or a cozy 99 B-Line. Or at the charming Kranky Cafe on 4th (near Main).
Favourite Vancouver/Lower Mainland writer?
Theoretically, the stunningly bright love child of Zsuszi Gartner and Jenn Farrell, painstakingly midwifed on an island by M.A.C. Farrant.
What is next on your reading list?
The Recognitions by William Thomas Gaddis, who Jonathan Franzen calls ‘Mr. Difficult’.
